German Chamber
Acts On Bill
Berlin (JTA) — The Bundesrat,
Germany's upper house of Par-
liament, has rejected a package
of crime-fighting initiatives that
included a measure that would
make it easier to prosecute those
who repeat the so-called
"Auschwitz lie" and allow for
prison terms of up to three years
for such crimes.
But it appears that the rejec-
tion was based on the main
crime-fighting components of the
bill, not on the provisions dealing
with neo-Nazi activity.
That same day, June 10, the
same body approved a separate
bill calling for penalties of up to
five years for a similar, narrow-
er legal definition of the
"Auschwitz lie."
The term currently refers to
the notion that Jews were not
gassed at Auschwitz or that it
was technically not possible to
> have gassed people there.
The Bundesrat agreed to for-
ward the second bill to the Bun-
destag, the lower house of
Parliament. Under German law,
a proposed bill must go through
three readings in the Bundestag
and then be returned to the Bun-
desrat for final approval.
It is unlikely that the legisla-
tion will be passed before Parlia-
ment begins its summer break on
July 8.
Stefan Schmidt-Meinecke,
Bundesrat spokesman, said the
initial legislation was not reject-
ed because of its "Auschwitz lie"
provisions, but rather for politi-
cal opposition to other aspects of
the measure's overall crime-fight-
ing proposals.
The fact that lawmakers in-
troduced a bill solely focusing on
the "Auschwitz lie" on the same
day they rejected the overall
crime bill shows that it is impor-
tant to them to enact tougher leg-
islation against Holocaust denial,
he said.
The Bundesrat has a majority
of the opposition Social Democ-
ratic Party. It apparently vetoed
the bill because Chancellor Hel-
mut Kohl's conservative govern-
ment attached too many
unpopular initiatives to the leg-
islation.
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But the aspects of the legisla-
tion governing neo-Nazi and anti-
Semitic crimes were broadly
supported, Schmidt-Meinecke
said. Many Social Democrats
have argued that such legislation
7' is needed because of recent con-
troversial decisions handed down
by various federal courts.
A federal appeals court ruled
in March that simply saying that
Jews were not gassed at
Auschwitz or that it was techni-
cally not possible to gas people is
/ not punishable under German
law.
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